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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>*Please excuse any cross-postings*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>HICSS 46: Knowledge Management in an Era of New Social Media:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <b>Risks and Opportunities</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Members of the “net generation” have grown up comfortable with digital networks and the social interactions such media have afforded. These NetGeners and others who have embraced the new social media services such as Twitter and Facebook use these and similar platforms to form and maintain communities of interest and even communities of practice, crossing organizational and political boundaries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As the use of these technologies become more prevalent in the workplace, organizations experience tensions because the use of social networking and social media challenge the typical organizational structure and relationships. The challenge is for executives to find ways to mobilize the creativity and energy of those who embrace these technologies but still enable the organization to protect its proprietary knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Topics in this mini-track can include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=a><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Detailed case studies of how organizations manage the tension arising from the use of social media in the workplace<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Detailed case studies of how organizations are benefiting from social media and how they are managing the design and control of applications that use social media<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Economic analyses of the costs and benefits of social media to firms and organizations<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ethical and legal aspects of using social media as part of an overall knowledge management strategy<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>How crowdsourcing and other applications of social media are used in innovation and new knowledge development<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Implications for knowledge security at the organizational level by the increasing use of social media and social networking services <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Risk management strategies for knowledge managers who want to use social media to benefit their organizations<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Papers solicited for this mini-track cover issues<span style='color:black'>, challenges, ideas, and solutions for managing knowledge in an era of social media. The use of social media (SM) presents both risks and opportunities for knowledge management (KM) and systems. On the one hand, SM offers unprecedented opportunities for sharing information and knowledge both among colleagues closely bound by shared interests but also among those representing the “strength of weak ties” (Granovetter, 1973). On the other hand, SM, because of the ease with which information can be disseminated, threatens organizational control of information and increases the risk of the loss of intellectual property and proprietary knowledge. For this track, we encourage authors from academia, industry, governments, and non-profits, especially collaborations among these groups to address the tension between both these aspects of KM and SM. We solicit early stage concepts, case studies, works-in-progress, and collaborative action research among academics, executives, and policy makers that illustrate innovative approaches and solutions. <i>We especially seek papers that offer theoretically-based empirical research (either qualitative or quantitative)</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none'><tr><td width=319 valign=top style='width:239.4pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Robert M. Mason</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Information School<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>University of Washington<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:rmmason@uw.edu"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>rmmason@uw.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=319 valign=top style='width:239.4pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dianne P. Ford<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Faculty of Business Administration <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Memorial University of Newfoundland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto'><a href="mailto:dpford@mun.ca"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>dpford@mun.ca</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>Feedback on abstracts: any time<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>Final papers due: June 15, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>Registration/submission information: </span><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/</a><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>********************************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dr. Dianne P. Ford<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Associate Professor, OB/HR, MIS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Faculty of Business Administration<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Memorial University of Newfoundland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>St.John's, NL, A1B 3X5<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>CANADA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ph: (709) 864-8511<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fax: (709) 864-7680<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Website: <a href="http://www.busi.mun.ca/dpford">www.busi.mun.ca/dpford</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>**Please consider the environment before you print this email.**<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*******************************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><br>This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php
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